…As in my own horn a little bit. Someone actually paid me to write something, and slap my ass and call me Sally, they printed it (I know this because I currently have 20 copies sitting on my desk ready to be autographed for my adoring fans). Grab a copy of Blue Ridge Outdoors at your favorite outdoor retailer or click on the cover to check out my story, with some of Steve’s fine photography as well.
- Dave
Judging by the SCOF inbox, the Cobia in the Low Country have been blowing up the past couple of weeks. Never ones to keep all the goodness for ourselves here is a video SCOF fan Bryan Bowers sent us ,and some fantabulous (figure since same sex marriage is the new black now, I better learn the vocabulary) grip and grins from our buddy Ken’s last trip down low. Hopefully this is enough to keep you from ending it all this close to the weekend. Enjoy.
- Dave
One can’t exist without the other, and this past weekend pretty much proved it. While Steve and I were down in the Low Country playing with his new Towee Boat (sweet job Todd, everybody should check these out…really slick little boat), and not catching red fish, A couple of other fellars here at SCOF were busy kicking some serious bass ass and taking names. Ryan (SCOF Videographer) and Murphy (SCOF advertising sales and staff West Virginian) entered themselves in the 4th Annual Float and Fly Fishing The Greenbrier River Catch and Release Smallmouth Bass Tournament, and somehow managed to win the whole damn thing. Team SCOF took 1st place and Murphy took the overall individual prize with Ryan coming in a close and hilarious second. The only thing Ryan had to say for himself was that Murphy will be getting punched in the stomach when he least expects it. Congragulations fellas, and thanks for picking up the slack for the rest of us.
- Dave
Hello SCOF’sters (it’s something we’re working on…we might need to keep working), the Sprung Issue has been out for a little over a week, and it seems like we haven’t completely alienated our readership quite yet. If you haven’t had time to check it all out, today is as good a day as any, don’t you think? We would also please ask that you share the gift of SCOF with everyone you know. Think of SCOF as a raging case of mono…you don’t want to be the only one with it do you?…spread it around to everyone you know, and then they can be just as miserable as you. We would ask, that instead of going around and randomly swapping spit with strangers, you just share SCOF on Facebook, twitter, various fishing forums you might be in bad standing with and so on…for hygiene sake if nothing else. I didn’t want to come on here and shill for the magazine and not give you some piscatorial diversion for your Tuesday so below you’ll find some shots that didn’t make the issue, but we like to think they were real close.
- Dave
Click on the cover for what we think might be the best issue we put out since the last one.
If you like sitting in a dark room with a bunch of other dudes half as much as I do, you’re gonna wanna make sure to be at Highlands Brewing Company this Saturday, April 7th,for the Asheville stop of the Fly Fishing Film Tour. The fish movies are really just a bonus in my book. This year is gonna be, as the kids say, off the hizzie. How could it not be? I mean SCOF and The Fiberglass Manifesto have joined Hunter Banks to bring the fishy folks of Western North Carolina a fly fishing extravaganza complete with live music, food served out of a truck, beer, a ton of giveaways, a hillbilly mini-casting course, and oh yeah did I mention beer? So get your ticket for ten before the show at Hunter Banks or pay 15 at the door. Either way you’d have to go to Tijuana to get this much fun for those prices.
- Dave
It’s good to have friends no matter who they are. It’s especially god to have friends that are super f’n talented. The fellas from Gink and Gasoline came up a few weeks ago for some fishing and some of the most interesting shots we got were of two pros working. Kent and Louis have combined for a lot of famous cover shots of magazines (I’m talking about real magazines here, ones that people, including myself, actually pay for), and Louis even managed to get our buddy Murphy onto a national magazine cover with one of his shots, despite the fact that Murphy looks like a cross between a mexican wrestler and a sasquatch…a sasquachador if you will. We were thinking about using this as a feature in the magazine at some point, but then our seventh grade girl teeny bopper fanaticism about these fellas work might seem a little odd. So here it is, How the Sausage Is Made…Photos by Steve.
We here at SCOF vehemently oppose the pervasive behavior of peddling grip and grins across the intraweb…most of the time. Our buddy Matt Milner sent me a pic of one of his young Jedi clients, and what is absolutely the biggest cuttie we have ever seen. Jack Barton is the angler (12 years old) and this creature of the deep was boated on an eight foot four weight. To put things into perspective, the current Arkansas state record cutthroat is a measly 9.9 pounds. Matt swears this bad boy would have weighed in at twelve…we tend to believe Matt in matters such as these. Well done young man, and Matt, get the jet warmed up we’ll be heading your way just as soon as we can come up with an excuse to give the wives…right now we’re leaning towards mission work.
- Dave
It’s starting to feel a lot like Spring in a lot of places around the Southeast, and my flip flops are at shop being polished up as I write this. We figured the time for selling hoodies had just about passed us by. So we took all of our mad hoody money and re-invested it not only in ourselves, but reinvested it in America…if you consider America to be our old hippie screen printer down the street. Steve has come up with some pretty all right new T-Shirt designs and they are now available in our store. We only had enough to makes small runs of each so get them while they last (which we hope won’t be long…I want to take the t-shirt money and roll it over into an inflatable castle for the office).
- Dave
So the numbers are still being crunched, but we can say with a fair amount of confidence that this year’s Tie-One-On-A-Thon was a resounding success. We had more tiers, prizes, attendees, flies tied, and most importantly made more money for Project Healing Waters this year compared to last year…so in Spinal tap terms this year was an 11. We would like to thank all the sponsors that helped us put on the event this year, especially our main two co-sponsors Cameron Mortenson, of the Fiberglass Manifesto, and Hunter Banks Fly Shop. Without ya’ll it would be just us, and we’re pretty lame so once again thanks for all the support, and enjoy the pretty pictures.
- dave
